Combined hone and strop



Jan. 6, 1925.

W. QUINTAL COMBINED HONE AND. STR'OP Filed Feb. 3; 1922 y ifi Patented Jan.. 6, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILFRED QUINTAL, 0F HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

COMBINED VI-IONE AND STROIP.

Application led llehruary 3, 1922. Serial No. 533,744.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILFRED QUrN'rAL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at I-Iartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined I-Ione and Strop, of which the following is a specification. Y

This invention relates to improvements in razor hones and stropping devices.

An object of the invention is to combine into a single structure a hone and strop device that is secured tota rigid backing or support, and of such dimensions as to make it convenient to carry in the pocket, if desired, as is often necessary for barbers to visit their customers.

A further objectof the device is to treat one section of a strip of leather to form a honing surface, the other section being designed for use as a strop, so that both the honing and stropping operations may be performed on one strip of leather or other suitable material. Y

A further object of the invention is to provide means forl securing the strip of leather to the backing piece, as will be fully described.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational View showing aportion of the backing member, the strip of leather, and the means for securing the leather to the backing.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of Fig. 1 illustrating the hone and strop portions.

Fig. 3 is a' longitudinal sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 is a modiiication showing the hone and strop secured to the wooden backing piece.

Referring to the drawings in detail: 1 designates the backing or base piece to which the strip of leather that forms the hone and strop portions is secured. The hone or treated portion is indicated at 2 and the strop portion at 3. The part 2 is treated with some substance, compound, or mechanicalv mixtureV that readily enters the pores Yof the leather or other material as iinely ground or pulverized carborundum` and oil which becomes intimately incorporated therewith. The preparation that is used to treat this part of the leather, however, forms no part of the present invention. The portion of leather indicated at 3 has the usual stropping or iinishing surface and is only treated with oil.

The strip of leather. is secured to the backing 1 by means of strips 4 of thin material, as tin or aluminum. These are secured to the edge of the base 1 by the screws 5 or any'suitable means; :Formed integral y with the strips are the cross pieces 6 which extend over the upper surface ofthe strip of leather and down on the opposite edge, where they are connected with. the oppositely located strip 7 which is secured to the opposite' edge of the base 1 as indicated at 8.

It will be seen from this description that I have provided a combinedhone and strop apparatus that `is simple and inexpensive inY construction and one that can be readily carried by the user.

It is of course obviousthat the strip of leather 3 and the honepart 2 may be secured to the Vwooden backing 1 by gluing yas readily understood, and as shown in Fig. 1. f 1' It has been found from experience that` when a razor is honed andrstropped as indicated in Fig. 2 by moving the edge ofthe razor blade diagonally or transversely' across the hone surface 3, and the stropping surface 2, as shown by the arrowsV that the edge of the blade is formed with small serrations that are somewhat curved on one edge that is to say vinstead of the serrations being triangular in shape they have one edge that is curved. 'Ihis form of edge has been verifiedV under the microscope. The i result of this is that the blade is formed with an edge that renders shaving very much easier vand comfortable. f

Fig. 2 shows Va razor being honed and stropped by using the guard thereon which In a device of the kind described comprising the combination with a rigid basev inember, a strip of leather like material, secured thereto, securing means for attaching the same to the said member and comprising oppositely locatedv strips designed to be attachedto the oppositely located edges of the base, and transverse strips connected to the l Side strips and extending across the upper surface of the strip of leather, substantially as shown and described;

WILFRED QUINTAL'. 

